An international conference on World War II in Alaska, northwest
Canada, and the North Pacific region was held in Anchorage by
the Alaska at War organization in November 1993, as part of a
commemoration of the war. Alaska at War was a nonprofit association
which was formed in 1992; it grew out of the Alaskan Command's
World War II Commemoration Committee on Elmendorf Air Force Base.
The conference and the publication of its papers were funded by
the Alaska Humanities Forum, the Legacy Program of the U.S. Department
of Defense, the Quest for Truth Foundation of Seattle, and the
Center for Global Partnership of the Japanese Foundation. The
three day symposium, the focal point of the week long conference,
brought together an international and interdisciplinary group
of scholars, historians, American and Japanese soldiers, civilian
evacuees, Alaska civilians, government officials, and descendants
of prisoners of war to comment on the issues, personalities, and
effects of the war within the microcosm of the Alaska theater.

The collection contains the records of the association, Alaska
at War, and their symposium. Included are steering committee minutes,
committee correspondence, correspondence with paper presenters,
copies of conference papers, financial records, tape recordings
of symposium addresses, and conference posters.

The collection was presented to the archives by Bruce Parham
of Alaska at War acting for the organization. A deed of gift was
signed in 1996.

Session A: War
in the North Pacific, II11. 1993, November 11. 1. "The First
Special Service Force and Canadian Involvement at Kiska"
(Alastair Neeley). 3. "Kiska, the Test that Turned a Regiment
into a Mountain Division" (George F. Earle).12. 1993, November 11. 2. "'When We Got There, the
Cupboard was Bare': Canada's Greenlight Force and the Invasion
of Kiska, 1943" (Galen R. Perras) and 4. "Kiska, the
Test that Turned a Regiment into a Mountain Division" (continued).

Session A: War's
Impact on the Home Front, I23. 1993, November 12. 1. "World War
II in Alaska: A View from the Diaries of Ernest Gruening"
(David A. Hales). 3. "The Salmon Industry at War" (Bob
King).24-25. 1993, November 12. 2. "The Civilian Conservation
Corps in Alaska and National Preparation" (W. Conner Sorensen).
4. "My Alaska War Years, 1941-1946" (Helen Butcher).26. 1993, November 12. 5. "World War II through The
Alaska Sportsman Magazine" (Timothy Rawson). [U.S. Army
in the Territory of Alaska?] (Mike Sefaga).

Keynote Address48-49. 1993, November 13. "Art and the
Reminiscences of the Aleutian War" (William F. Draper and
George Earle).

Session A: Historic
Preservation, I50. 1993, November 13. 6. "Right Before
Your Eyes: Finding Alaska's World War II Records in the National
Archives" (R. Bruce Parham). 8. "Attu and Kiska, 2043:
How Much of the Past Can the Present Save for the Future?"
(Charles E. Diters).43. 1993, November 13. 7. "Underwater Archaeology
of the World War II Aleutian Campaign" (Larry Murphy and
Daniel Lenihan).

Session A: Historic
Preservation, II53. 1993, November 13. 2. "The Landscape
of a Landmark: Strategies for Preservation" (Linda Cook).
11. "Turning the Forgotten into the Remembered: The Making
of Caines Head State Recreation Area" (Jack E. Sinclair).54. 1993, November 13. 10. "Making it Right: Restitution
for the Aleut Churches Damaged in World War II" (Barbara
S. Smith).

Keynote
Addresses1. [Side 1] 1993, November 11. "Naval
Views on the North Pacific before and during World War II"
(Dean Allard). [Side] 2. 1993, November 12. "Strategic Cooperation.-
The Canadian Commitment to the Defense of Alaska in the Second
World War" (M.V. Bezeau).2. [Sides] 1-2. 1993, November 11. "An Alaska Scout
Remembers" (Buck Delkettie). [Sides] 1-2. 1993, November
13. "Art and the Reminiscences of the Aleutian War"
(William F. Draper and George Earle).3. [Sides] 1-2. 1993, November 12. "The Thousand-Mile
War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians" (Brian Garfield).4. 1993, November 12. 1-2. Keynote Address. "American
National Strategy in the Asian and Pacific War" (William
A. Jacobs).

Session A: War
in the North Pacific, II6. [Side 1]. 1993, November 11." The
First Special Service Force and Canadian Involvement at Kiska"
(Alastair Neeley). [Sides] 1-2. "When We Got There,
the Cupboard Was Bare'. Canada's Greenlight Force and the Invasion
of Kiska, 1943" (Galen R. Perras). [Side] 2. "Kiska,
the Test that Turned a Regiment into a Mountain Division"
(George F. Earle).

Session A: Historic
Preservation, I25. [Side] 1. 1993, November 13. "Right
Before Your Eyes: Finding Alaska's World War II Records in the
National Archives" (R. Bruce Parham). "Attu and Kiska,
2043: How Much of the Past Can the Present Save for the Future?"
(Charles E. Diters). [Side] 2. "Underwater Archaeology of
the World War II Aleutian Campaign" (Larry Murphy and Daniel
Lenihan).

Session A: Historic
Preservation, II26. [Side] 1. 1993, November 13. "The
Landscape of a Landmark: Strategies for Preservation" (Linda
Cook). "Turning the Forgotten into the Remembered: The Making
of Caines Head State Recreation Area" (Jack E. Sinclair).
[Sides] 1-2. "Making it Right: Restitution for the Aleut
Churches Damaged in World War II" (Barbara S. Smith).

Series 6: Oversize (Stored
in Flat Cabinet Drawer C)1. Art for Poster, Alaska at War Conference and Symposium, 1993.
(6 sheets)2. Art poster, Alaska at War Conference and Symposium, matted,
1993.3. Poster, "A Brush with War: World War II Art from the
Aleutians," 1993, September 16-22. (Artwork is "R.C.A.F.
Briefing Before Kiska" by Paul Alexander Goranson.)